It’s a dash the length of M. The smaller one is called en dash.
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StarvingMartist@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
What is em dash
ZMonster@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Patches@ttrpg.network 1 month ago
A dash that is twice as long as a regular dash.
It’s an odd character that doesn’t exist on any keyboard but AI uses it everywhere.
The only time you likely encountered it outside AI is in Microsoft Word. Word replaces 2 dashes (-) with an Em—Dash.
lmorchard@lemmy.sdf.org 1 month ago
It’s just alt-hyphen on Mac. I use it all the time
howrar@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Notion does that too
Nikls94@lemmy.world 1 month ago
German Microsoft makes them automatically. If you write word - word it automatically lengthens the - to a — but if you write it like word-word it doesn’t—and LLMs don’t put spaces in between
resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Em—dash.
toeblast96@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
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